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	Alexander Calder Lithographs, Etchings, Prints & Artwork signed by Alexander Calder
		Alexander Calder was born July 22, 1898, in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, into a family of artists--his father was a sculptor and his mother a painter.
		Calder was encouraged to create, and from the age of eight he always had his own workshop wherever* the family lived.
		Alexander Calder found he enjoyed working with wire for his circus: he soon began to sculpt from this material portraits of his friends and public figures of the day.
	www.georgetownframeshoppe.com /alexander_calder_biography.html (1595 words)

	Alexander Calder - Biography
		Alexander Calder, internationally famous by his mid-30s, is renowned for developing a new idiom in modern art-the mobile.
		Calder was born in 1898 in Philadelphia, the son of Alexander Stirling Calder and grandson of Alexander Milne Calder, both well-known sculptors.
		Calder created a miniature circus in his studio; the animals, clowns and tumblers were made of wire and animated by hand.
	www.rogallery.com /calder_alexander/calder-biography.htm (446 words)

	ALEXANDER CALDER
		Alexander Calder, however, studied mechanical engineering from 1915 to 1919 at the Stevens Institute of technology at Hoboken, New jersey, and began to take an interest in landscape painting only in 1922 after having tried his hand at a variety of jobs.
		Calder and his fellow students soon proved to be good draughtsmen and made a game of rapidly sketching people in the streets and the underground.
		Calder was a master when it came to reach perfect balance with his mobiles and to express movement though he claimed to produce them simply by testing the balancing effect of his wired elements on his finger.
	www.artcult.com /calder.htm (826 words)

	Alexander Calder \| Untitled \| Hollis Taggart Galleries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Calder was born in a suburb of Philadelphia to a family of artists.
		Calder’s use of irregular, biomorphic forms that recall the work of Miró reflected the influence of Surrealism and Dada, but it was the art and concepts of Mondrian that would have the most decisive impact on Calder’s work.
		Calder was impressed by Mondrian’s reduction of visual imagery to a vocabulary of flat planes of primary colors.
	www.hollistaggart.com /artists/calder_dg9251.htm (784 words)

	Sculptor.Org - Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
		Alexander Calder (1898-1976) Born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia) in 1898, Alexander Calder came from a family of famous artists.
		White Cascade, one of Alexander Calder's last and greatest motorized sculptures, was installed in the court of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia in 1976.
		Alexander Calder, America's first abstract artist of international renown, is forever associated with his invention of the mobile.
	www.sculptor.org /sculptors/byname/alexandercalder.htm (432 words)

	Alexander Calder, Contemporary Prints at Kass/Meridian
		Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) American sculptor and painter who is famous as the inventor of the mobile.
		As a young artist, Calder was adept at making rapid drawings which conveyed a sense of movement by a single unbroken line.
		His influence on the kinetic art movement was great as he was one of the first to explore the idea of motion in sculpture, especially random motion and the idea of chance changing the shape of sculptures.
	www.kassmeridian.com /calder (321 words)

	Alexander "Sandy" Calder and Braniff Airways - www.braniffpages.com
		Calder was born in Philadelphia, Penn in 1898, but didn't make the "art scene" until 1926 when he exhibited his work in New York.
		Calder was known for his love of wine, and would often have a bottle with him in the hangar.
		Alexander Calder at the same event as above posing with the chosen design for "The Flying Colors of The United States." Then Braniff President, Russell Thayer, brought in after Ed Acker left earlier that year for Air Florida, is standing to the left of Calder.
	www.braniffpages.com /calder/calder.html (1996 words)

	Alexander Calder Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Alexander Calder was born in Philadelphia, the son of a well-known sculptor and educator and his wife, a talented painter.
		Calder's grandfather, also a sculptor, executed the figure of William Penn that graces the dome of the city hall in Philadelphia.
		Calder's first wire sculpture, Josephine Baker (1926), a witty linear representation of the famous American-born chanteuse, was exhibited to the Paris art community during the same period that his circus was drawing attention.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/alexander-calder (1068 words)

	Alexander Calder's Flying Colors
		The famous Calder colors, yellow, red, orange, blue, fl and white were made to the artist’s specifications in an aerospace paint that was color computerized and formulated to withstand high speed, altitude and weather.
		Calder hand painted the finishing touches to two of the planes’ engine covers himself, hours before the official unveiling and inaugural flight in a Dallas hangar.
		Calder himself applied the final touches, a miniature version of the plane and a motif of red and blue stars and stripes on the engine nacelles.
	www.braniffinternational.org /image/flyingcolors.htm (670 words)

	Alexander Calder
		Calder, one of the greatest sculptors of the twentieth century, invented the mobile, which has become omnipresent in our society.
		Spaightwood Galleries is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of Alexander Calder’s contribution to the 1972 election campaign, McGovern for McGovernment, an original color lithograph executed in 1971 at the Styria Studios (with their seal) as a fund-rasining contribution to George McGovern.
		Calder, who was fiercly opposed to the war in Vietnam, created this print as a response to the dour Nixon.
	www.spaightwoodgalleries.com /Pages/Calder.html (490 words)

	Public Art Fund: Alexander Calder
		Alexander Calder in New York is the first-ever multi-work exhibition of the artist's sculptures in New York City's public spaces.
		Calder (1898-1976) was an engineer by training, and the works on view epitomize his technical mastery of industrial materials.
		Born in Philadelphia in 1898, Alexander Calder was the second child of artist parents.
	publicartfund.org /pafweb/projects/06/calder/calder-06.html (508 words)

	Alexander Calder Online
		Alexander Calder in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
		Alexander Calder at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Alexander Calder at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. Letter from Calder to Ben Shahn.
		Alexander Calder copyright requests handled by the Artists Rights Society.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/calder_alexander.html (735 words)

	Biography - Alexander Calder
		Had Roxbury Connecticut's Alexander "Sandy" Calder (1898-1976) assumed a career as toy-maker instead of the most innovative and popular sculptor in American history he likely would have been a fashioner of kites, yo-yos, balsa-wood planes and something like the Slinky.
		Although Calder was breaking new grounds in art he had not yet found a way of breaking records in sales - scratching the pad not once at his New York show.
		Alexander Calder worked in almost every artistic element including painting (primarily gouache work) and drawings.
	www.antiquetalk.com /column291.htm (601 words)

	The Surreal Calder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Alexander Calder is a beloved modernist whose career has been little explored in relation to the artists and concepts that inspired his work.
		Calder's early artworks were nurtured by many sources: Marcel Duchamp, who suggested the name "mobile" for the kinetic art form that Calder so famously employed; Piet Mondrian, who introduced Calder to pure abstraction; and Joan Miró;, who introduced Calder to Surrealism.
		The Surreal Calder is organized by The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, and is generously supported in part by The Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation, Anita and Mike Stude, An Anonymous Donor in Honor of Elsian Cozens, Mary and Roy Cullen, and Mrs.
	www.artsmia.org /surreal-calder (221 words)

	Storm King Art Center - Alexander Calder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Alexander Calder, famous for his invention of the mobile, created an important body of large-scale free-standing sculptures that did not move - these are known as "stabiles." Each work in this group characteristically blends his love of colorful and playful curvilinear forms derived from nature with the scale of small buildings or shelters.
		This monumental, architecturally scaled stabile (fifty-six feet high) is among the last of Calder's career; it merges two important aspects of his development, the architectonic and the rounded, abstract biomorphic shapes vaguely reminiscent of natural forms.
		Calder was often frustrated by the limits of interior spaces and longed to see his work displayed outdoors "where the sky could be my ceiling."
	www.stormking.org /AlexanderCalder.html (114 words)

	Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Calder - Biography
		Alexander Calder was born July 22, 1898, in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, into a family of artists.
		Calder began to experiment with abstract sculpture at this time and in 1931 and 1932 introduced moving parts into his work.
		A Calder exhibition was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1976.
	www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_26.html (397 words)

	Alexander Calder & the Natural Cycle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		There was a small Alexander Calder mobile in that exhibition that was, in the context of Pop Mechanics, a historical reference to lead the viewer through the modern to the contemporary.
		Alexander Calder and The Natural Cycle is a glimpse into the work of an influential and accomplished artistic powerhouse.
		From a narrow band of time toward the end of Calder’s life, here is a body of work that is organic and fluid, executed with the utmost in confidence and skill.
	www.sqart.org /exh/circles/calder.htm (332 words)

	Alexander Calder - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Although he worked in a variety of styles, American sculptor Alexander Calder is best known for his mobiles, abstract sculptures delicately suspended and balanced in an open space.
		One of the few abstract artists to gain widespread public acceptance, Calder fascinated viewers with the vitality and humor of his works.
		His last major work, a huge mobile in the central court of the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., was completed in 1978, two years after his death.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461523043_761568042_-1_1/Alexander_Calder.html (83 words)

	Hofstra Museum, Permanent Collection, Alexander Calder
		Alexander Calder?s artist parents encouraged him to create toys throughout his childhood, always maintaining an art studio for him.
		Calder received a degree in mechanical engineering in 1919 but soon decided to pursue a career as an artist.
		Calder was also interested in sculpture that would move with and by the elements and began to experiment with that notion in the mid 1930?s.
	www.hofstra.edu /COM/Museum/Museum_collection_74_02.cfm (467 words)

	Amazon.ca: Alexander Calder: Books: Joan M. Marter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		These sources, together with Calder's abiding interest in American folk art, were fundamental to the evolution of his wood and wire sculptures, which fundamentally challenged the principles of Western sculpture established in antiquity.
		Calder's creation of the mobile and stabile, two forms of sculpture that are synonymous with modernism, is also analysed in detail.
		ALEXANDER (SANDY) CALDER was a third-generation sculptor who grew up surrounded by artmaking, even serving as a model for both his parents. Read the first page
	www.amazon.ca /Alexander-Calder-Joan-M-Marter/dp/0521587174 (483 words)

	Alexander Calder
		In the early 1930s Calder met Joan Miro and Piet Mondrian and was fascinated by their non-referential paintings of colors and shapes.
		In 1933 Calder and his wife Louisa (whom he met on a ship in 1929) settled permanently in Roxbury, Connecticut, in an 18th-century farmhouse.
		In 1975 Alexander Calder was awarded the United Nations Peace Medal, and in 1976 President Gerald Ford offered Calder the Medal of Freedom.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/american_artists/81069/2 (503 words)

	Alexander Calder Summary
		Alexander Calder was born in Philadelphia, the son of a well-known sculptor and educator and his wife, a tale...
		Calder was fascinated by motion, which led him to develop a new art form--movable sculpture.
		Alexander Calder(July 22 1898 – November 11 1976), also known as Sandy Calder, was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile.
	www.bookrags.com /Alexander_Calder (162 words)

	American Masters . Alexander Calder \| PBS
		By the early 1930s Calder had brought his "Circus" to the United States and back, and was living in Paris off the proceeds of his regular performances.
		So, in his early thirties Alexander Calder had not only found a project he would continue for the rest of his life, he had created a unique form of art, the mobile.
		In a century that saw the forms of art and literature reinvented regularly, Alexander Calder stands out as one of the great pioneers of his time.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/calder_a.html (873 words)

	Alexander Calder: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From his earliest hand-crafted toys to his later wire portraits and dynamic mobiles, Calder was fascinated by the mechanical potential of his materials.
		Alexander Calder: 1898 - 1976 -- an exhibition of approximately 250 works -- is on view at SFMOMA from September 4 to December 1, 1998.
		The exhibition, honoring the centenary of Calder's birth, spans the artist's career and presents a range of works including wire sculptures, mobiles, stabiles, paintings and jewelry.
	www.sfmoma.org /espace/calder/calder_intro.html (362 words)

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